Today’s post is simple an assortment of items and links that I wished to briefly mention, but previously forgot to throw into a post someplace. Football Links The football assortment begins with the quarterback and running back rankings for Week Fourteen. The few people who follow this feature might have noticed that I skipped Week […]
Last year the Miami Heat were the worst team in the NBA, winning just 15 games with a -9.3 efficiency differential (offensive efficiency minus defensive efficiency). This year it’s a very different story. After just 20 games the team has already won eleven contests. And the Heat’s efficiency differential of 1.6 is consistent with a […]
“If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.” This quote – from Bill Parcells – essentially summarizes the problem facing all head coaches who work under a general manager. The coach is responsible for the outcome of the dinner, but the general […]
On Tuesday – in the midst of my daily scan of TrueHoop – I came across the following item in the daily bullets: Per minute, Russell Westbrook and Derrick Rose have very similar numbers. Having spent a bit of time looking at each player’s numbers this year, I found this statement to be a bit […]
Wages of Wins Journal
December 9, 2008 by dberri
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